Society for Neuroscience 2008 blogger meetup is a go

November 10, 2008

SfN 2006 Poster SessionI’ve received a few queries in the past couple of days about the status of a meetup during the SfN meeting. I guess people missed my comment on the prior post. Anyway, stop panicking! I’ll be meeting up with bloggers and blog readers in Washington DC and you, DearReader, are cordially invited.

As I said in the comment:

Okay, we’re a week out and I say we’re a “go” for meetup as i have a bunch of interested party emails in the mailbox. Sunday the 16th is a decent day for most, including the non-SFN locals. Send me an email if you want to be notified where/when, not sure I’m going to post it. if I do it will be at the last minute.
In terms of timeslots you can also send me your details and preferences. The biggest category of workaround will be the ~6:30-8:30 SFN mixer/socials so I am going to try to shoot for something that is within relatively easy distance of the Ren Washington

The one thing I will underline is that it would be helpful for you to mention if you have time conflicts. We have a big potential window from the end of poster sessions onward until bar closing and many of you will have pre-existing commitments for part of the evening.

15 Responses to “Society for Neuroscience 2008 blogger meetup is a go”

Sunday night is not the best time for me (Advisor wants to have a big lab dinner, and he usually likes to go carousing after), but I’ll make it when I possibly can! I shall be very crafty and slip away. Anything within easy distance of the conference center is awesome.

if only that massive chunk of data had been finished a couple of months earlier, i would so be there.
It is my belief that one should strive to attend one or two core meetings every year whether one has enough data to submit an abstract or not. You are not there only to present data.

I told DM this already, but: yep, it turns out I’ll actually make it, and sign me up :).
Also: You are not there only to present data is both true and gets us nicely back to the fracas over making friends with your prof / likely reviewers / future postdocs / future drinking buddies… :-). I wonder what my odds are or *recruiting* a postdoc or two at the DM shindig? 🙂